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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Lacie and Cecile

About a year ago I learned about a contemporary French painter named Cecile Veilhan. I felt an immediate connection with her art to the point that I wondered if she were my long-lost twin sister. I made a board on my Pinterest specifically for her paintings and filled it with my favorites.

painting by Cecile Veilhan

One day I made a quick sketch of me and my sisters and set to work on a painting of my own -- inspired by Cecile Veilhan's style.

"The Connie Girls" by Lacie Myers 2013

We grew up in the 1970's. No one had a camera with them at all times, ready to capture their children's lives in colorful detail, so it was fun to imagine this picture of my sisters and me -- based on my memories and my love for them both.

All the information I can find about Cecile is written in French, so I don't know much about the materials she uses or her methods. But... it was fun experimenting with acrylics, oil pastels, and colored pencils to get effects similar to those in her work.

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I’m Lacie Myers. I keep two sketchbooks at all times: one in my studio and one in my purse. I fill them with drawings of course, but also with quotes, notes, and stories I’ve written.

By the time a sketchbook is filled, it’s an illustrated map of how my creative self has spent the year. I share some of that with you here.

"You sit here for days saying, This is strange business. You’re the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. You’re some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won’t have to become coins."
--Rumi